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These posts are my musings and cover many topics.  Some posts will be observations that I have made over my lifetime...some will be what I call, truisms.  Truisms that I have developed from having to deal with the tough situations life sometimes deals us.  I developed these little philosophies to help me avoid a situation in the future or  to allow me to have a better outcome the next time around.  All observations, truisms , and whatever other post this blog contains are  based on my own personal experiences and  opinions.  Hopefully, some post will be of some help to someone in a situation or  give someone another perspective...another way of looking/thinking about a situation that is helpful.  I love writing these posts and I appreciate you  reading them :-)

Please be aware there is a NEW  feature added to  some of the Musings.....AUDIO....There will be an audio bar on those Musings that offer this option.....You may not feel like reading at that moment....now you may listen:-)

Quote:

"All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind."- Gibran

MUSING ABOUT MUSIC.....     MINE...

4/11/2015

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Lately, I have been giving a lot of thought to music ...my music....both the composing and playing of it ...and....where  I'm  going with it all and how do I feel about it...


Recently, I was asked how I composed my cello songs..did I think about words in my mind...like lyrics?.....the question got me to thinking ...how do I compose these little songs?..they seem to just happen for me.....

When I composed Zadlo's Song...I was very clueless as it was my first...I wrote a little paragraph about Zadlo and then the notes and their time values came along....the very  knowledgable person who started me on this  composing path told me that if I ever got stuck ...I could use this writing words technique.....It worked wonderfully for Zadlo's Song but, I never needed it again.. as I never got stuck  again...but, I am prepared if I ever do :-)....

My compositions always start off with an intent....a thought....an idea....and usually feelings...an example would be my Opus song about my "adopted" penguin and his rescue and eventual release to his real world...it was like a movie with associated feelings playing in my mind....that is why I love to write a little story description about each piece ...as there are meanings at the base of each music piece I compose.....and that is exactly how I want it to be and would not do it any other way....

I explained , my newest composition,  Yearning... on its page and that was all about a feeling I had when I first heard some notes from my Tango....so,  that music  had no picture ...just a feeling  ...and I matched the music to that feeling...

I understand..but not too well...that much music is composed by math now..it is like a science..with very complex explanations that I do not understand , nor do I have any inclination to because it is  a very unromantic and unemotional way to make music....Recently, I saw  a Rachmaninoff quote that refers to this "analytical music"....it was beautiful and reassuring and I related to it.... no wonder his music is so beautiful...I have included it in the Quote section at the end...


I am planning my future works now....I have two in mind...one will be the visulatization technique and the  other will be based on a rhythm and some visual imagining, also...that one will be ... THE ELEPHANT SHUFFLE  ...and the one where I will have to do a lot of imagining will be...THE PLAYFUL ELEPHANT...then later in the year I am composing one piece with two tempos..a first, for me....a slower one and a fast one...I am excited about this  , so I will share a little about it....I am planning to adopt two penguin chicks this  year from SANCCOB when the orphans start in October or so..they will be named ANDANTE and ALLEGRO....it will be fun...and I love to support this very worthwhile organization...I will see a visual again for this one imagining penguin antics and attempt to match the music to them....in a few years, I hope there will be many released lovely penguins with musical names:-)..They may be released back in the wild but I will still  have them in their music :-)

I have always loved beautiful sounds....and that is not saying...that I love music...there is a difference to me...I have always played what I consider beautiful music with lovely sounds and flowing melodies.....I am fortunate that I have a teacher  that accepts this "quirk" ...she has always told me over our many years together that there is so much music in this world..there is no reason to play or learn something you don't like....

My goal and intent with my music compositions is to take beautiful sounds...notes...and connect them to  express emotions or create a musical story ...it is my fervent hope that my sounds always create beautiful musical thoughts and listening...:-)

QUOTES:

"The new kind of music seems to create not from the heart but from the head. Its composers think rather than feel. They have not the capacity to make their works exalt - they meditate, protest, analyze, reason, calculate and brood, but they do not exalt."- Rachmaninoff

"Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties,and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements."-Puccini

"Works of art make rules;
Rules do not make works of art."-Claude Debussy

"Imagination creates reality."-Richard Wagner

Note:  I think this following Haydn quote fits me to a T :-)

"There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original"- Joesph Haydn

Note: This is one of my favorite quotes:

"There is only one happiness in life, that is the happiness of creating"-Frederick Delius

2 Comments
NURTAN ESMEN
4/12/2015 05:39:45 am

Very well said! Inclusion of quotes from those who did it, rather than who just criticised is a wonderful reminder.

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MELLOW CELLO link
4/12/2015 06:52:55 am

Thank you so much Nurtan for such an insightful comment...Your words made me glad I included all them ..I found it enlightening ,when I was quote hunting ( I had the Rachy one) ,that, so many composers that I have regard for felt the same way....I appreciate you taking time to read/listen to this musing and responding :-)

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